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LEC01 Media Studies 05/07/2013
Critical Essay- you only have to do one of the two (the better mark)
Midterm- chapter 1-5
Final exam- chapter 6-13
Video (do you want to date my avator)
- viral videos
- the guild
- virtural games
- what exactly is reality ???
- is having a facebook like having a avatar
- how you present yourself
Key concepts
- Critical Studies
- mass media
- medium
- postmodernity
- socialization
- theory
Interdisiplinary
- humanities
- social science
- soc and psy anthro
- vast subject
- reperesnt a vast range of veiw
- social theory
o how media in term of inductire messages and audiences shape
knowledge, perception and understanding
o govern and theorizes with society
o how social theory highlys society
How we know what we know
- medium
o what exactly is a medium??? Lense through which is touhcing on
another topic , means od carrying a message, filtering
- media
o what is mass media??? Broadcast it is where me go from the producer
to the public (example tv as it use to be before th internet tve has
become something different with the creat of new technologies) print
motion picture broadcase new media (things that go fromone to
many)
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